BACKGROUND Antibiotic-resistant Salmonella enterica serovar Paratyphi A, the agent of paratyphoid A fever, poses an emerging public health dilemma in endemic areas of Asia and among travelers, as there is no licensed vaccine. Integral to our efforts to develop a S. Paratyphi A vaccine, we addressed the role of flagella as a potential protective antigen by comparing cell-associated flagella with...

Bacterial H antigens are specified by flagellin molecules, which constitute the flagellar filament. Escherichia coli 781-55 and E2987-73 are the type strains for H44 and H55 antigens, respectively. Unlike E. coli K-12, they possess two flagellin genes, fliC and fllA, on their chromosomes. However, they are monophasic, expressing exclusively the fllA genes, which specify the type antigens. In th...

Campos T.A., Nakazato G., Stehling E.G., Brocchi M. & Silveira W.D. 2008. Clonal study of avian Escherichia coli strains by fliC conserved-DNA-sequence regions analysis. Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira 28(10):508-514. Departamento de Microbiologia e Imunologia, Instituto de Biologia, Cx. Postal 6109, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Cidade Universitária Zeferino Vaz s/n, Barão Geraldo, Campin...

In this work, we propose a novel and efficient method for articulated human pose estimation in videos using a convolutional network architecture, which incorporates both color and motion features. We propose a new human body pose dataset, FLIC-motion, that extends the FLIC dataset [1] with additional motion features. We apply our architecture to this dataset and report significantly better perf...

A pedagogical overview of the formulation of the Fat Link Irrelevant Clover (FLIC) fermion action and its associated phenomenology is described. The scaling analysis indicates FLIC fermions provide a new form of nonperturbative O(a) improvement where near-continuum results are obtained at finite lattice spacing. Spin-1/2 and spin-3/2, even and odd parity baryon resonances are investigated in qu...

The fliC gene, which encodes phase 1 flagellin, was sequenced in strains of 15 Salmonella enterica serovars expressing flagellar antigenic factors of the g series. The occurrence of each of the flagellin serotypes g,m, m,t, and g,z51 in distantly related strains is the result of horizontal exchange of DNA, as indicated by identity or close similarity in nucleotide sequence of all or parts of th...

MAIK FRIEDEL†, SWETLANA NIKOLAJEWA‡ and THOMAS WILHELM§ †Biocomputing Group, Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI), Beutenbergstr. 11, D-07745 Jena, Germany Email: [email protected] ‡Department of Bioinformatics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Ernst-Abbe-Platz 2, D-07743 Jena, Germany §Theoretical Systems Biology, Institute of Food Research, Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7UH, United Kingd...

APE smearing the links in the irrelevant operators of clover fermions (Fat-Link Irrelevant Clover (FLIC) fermions) provides significant improvement in the condition number of the Hermitian-Dirac operator and gives rise to a factor of two savings in computing the overlap operator. This report investigates the effects of using a highly-improved definition of the lattice field-strength tensor Fμν ...